'Breaking Bad' star Aaron Paul paid his bills for 2 years with this extremely bizarre ad

Aaron Paul revealed that he lived off the payments from one
commercial for nearly two years.

On Tuesday's "Conan," the former "Breaking Bad" star who
played Jesse Pinkman said that he did a lot of commercials early
in his career in order to pay the bills. But one commercial
floated Paul for a long while.

"One of the earliest [commercials] you did that made a big change
for you, because you got paid, was an ad for Juicy Fruit gum,"
host Conan O'Brien said.

"Yes, that paid all my bills for almost two years," Paul said.

He then explained how he managed to make so much money on a
single commercial, and how it also served as motivation to
take his career to the next level.

"It was one commercial, but it had no dialogue in it. So they
were able to sell the commercial to multiple countries. And so, I
would get residuals every 13 weeks. When they stopped playing
that commercial, it was such a loud reality check. 'Oh my God, I
need to get a job,'" the actor, who's now on Hulu's "The Path,"
said.

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Juicy Fruit

The Juicy Fruit commercial, it should be noted, is very strange.
There's some mind control happening in a clinical setting, then
clothes go flying — all over gum.